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STEPHANIE SMITH DIDN'T PLAN ON GOING TO UCSC. AFTER graduating from Soquel High last June, she checked out Davis, but "It just didn't resonate with me."
She went to the Southwest and toured Northern Arizona University, but "I got lethargic there, not being next to the ocean."
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There's just barely enough room in the bubble for an extracurricular interest or two to squeak by. She still rides horses, dances with a local Polynesian dance troupe, and until recently, she volunteered with Save Our Shores.
Stephanie didn't always lead such a structured existence. She was born in Santa Cruz, but from the age of 9 to 13, she lived on the island of Kauai.
"I've already experienced the wild and crazy life, running around and living in teepees." She speculates that her academic career is her way of "rebelling" against her mom and dad, whom she calls "a New Age hippie" and "an old age hippie."
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Jordan is Palestine: Arieh Eldad's Two-State Solution
Posted By Mark Tapson On September 30, 2011 @ 12:53 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 66 Comments
With a petition for Palestinian statehood presented before the United Nations last week, the issue of the disputed right to the land of Israel seems to many to be on the verge of an historic, if unsatisfying and controversial, resolution. But Dr. Arieh Eldad, a Member of Knesset and chairman of the Jewish nationalist Hatikva party, insists that the root of the issue is not territorial, and thus any peace plan based on the concept of dividing the land is destined for failure.
In his pamphlet titled simply "Jordan is Palestine [2]," Eldad writes
Dividing the land of Israel west of the Jordan into two states – Israel and a Palestinian state – has become the only political plan accepted for international and domestic (Israeli) discourse. This, despite dozens of failures in trying to implement it during the past ninety years. Every failed attempt has been accompanied by bloody conflict and/or war.
Recently Eldad – also chief medical officer and senior commander of the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps and a Brigadier-General in the IDF (Reserves) – expressed his iconoclastic opinions in a speech at Temple Ner Maarav in Encino, northwest of Los Angeles. Also entitled "Jordan is Palestine," his presentation [3] put forth what he calls the "simple truth" that the Jews, and not the Arabs, have an historic right to the land of Israel. "I'm all for ending the occupation," he said. "We must end the occupation. Of course, I'm referring to the Muslim occupation of the land of Israel, starting in the seventh century."
So yes, there is certainly a territorial component to the problem, Eldad acknowledges. But, he explained, falling back on a medical analogy that reflects his profession, "We have misdiagnosed the conflict. It is a religious war. It's a clash of ideologies. It's not a territorial conflict."
Eldad gives an example of this clash of ideologies in a FrontPage Magazine contribution entitled "A Story of How Deep the Palestinians Have Sunk into the Moral Abyss [4]." A surgeon specializing in the treatment of burn victims, Eldad was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank in Jerusalem, the largest skin bank in the world, which stores skin for everyday needs as well as for wartime or mass casualty situations. He relates the true story of a Palestinian woman given medical attention there after her own family burned her for some transgression of "honor":
One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt. She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.
This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel. It is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilizational conflict, or rather a war between civilization & barbarism.
In his presentation last week he offered another example of the religious root of the conflict. Many thousands of Palestinian teachers, he said, work in the education system of UNRWA [5] (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees),
and the only thing [the students] learn is to hate the United States, to hate Israel. If you open a math book of the fourth grade of a Palestinian school, you learn that "if a shahid, a martyr, on a bus can kill fifteen Jews, how many Jews can be killed by three martyrs on a train?" This is the kind of mathematics they learn in school.
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Any alternative plan should be based on the fact that the Palestinians have their own state already in Jordan, a kingdom – in which the Palestinians are at least 75% of the residents – created after the British Mandatory land of Israel was divided into two. The plan should focus on resolving the regional solution by settling the Arab refugees in Jordan and other Arab countries that absorbed Palestinian refugees after the War of Independence in 1948…
Israel would exercise sovereignty over all territory west of the Jordan, receive exclusive authority over security issues in all areas of sovereignty, since Israel could never accept the existence of an army from another country west of the Jordan, with airspace sovereignty and full control of external borders…
The Plan "Jordan is Palestine" is the only approach that can handle conflict without endangering the very existence of the State of Israel.
There are four major elements of his plan: 1) recognition of Jordan as a Palestinian country; 2) the closure of UNRWA and the creation of a plan for the settlement of Arab refugees in Jordan, under the auspices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has a track record of successfully resettling tens of millions of refugees around the world; 3) Israeli and international guarantees of a continued Hashemite rule in Jordan, and 4) the application of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria.
If we remember that the main driving force of the Arabs in this conflict is Islam, the Jordan River border will not solve the conflict. But this plan will create a national state for Palestinians, who will be able to fulfill at least some national desires, and it will be a state whose very existence does not endanger Israel. The Jordan border will establish a clearly defensible border.
In addition to offering these recommendations, Eldad also pulled no punches last week when offering his opinion of Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. Eldad says that after Netanyahu's humiliating treatment at the hands of Obama earlier this year, in which the President simply left the Prime Minister to mull over his demands while Obama abandoned him for dinner, Netanyahu exhibited exactly the same characteristics as a soldier afflicted with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Eldad decried Netanyahu's willingness to bend under "extreme pressure" from the White House; he challenged him to answer the unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood with unilateral annexation of Judea and Samaria.
This is typical of Eldad's bold, politically incorrect assertions. A year ago he called for the assassination [6] of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, comparing him to Hitler. And unlike other politicians, Eldad does not sugarcoat the future. Because the Israeli-Arab conflict is religious and not territorial, he claims, there will not be peace in the Middle East. "I don't promise peace. I promise containment of the conflict."
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[3] his presentation: http://vimeo.com/29448794
[4] A Story of How Deep the Palestinians Have Sunk into the Moral Abyss: http://www.frontpagemag.com../2011/05/20/a-story-of-how-deep-the-palestinians-have-sunk-into-the-moral-abyss/
[5] UNRWA: http://www.unrwa.org/
[6] he called for the assassination: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/far-right-mk-assassinating-ahmadinejad-today-is-like-assassinating-hitler-in-1939-1.318881
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I searched Yachtworld for the past year for a boat that my wife and I could grow into. Coming from my Hunter 240, anything would have been a huge increase in comfort, but we wanted more than just that. We looked at Catalina, Beneteau and a few others, but the ones in our price range didn't seem to fit our personality. In early summer I saw an ad for my new boat, but I quick ruled it out due to the price. Last month I saw it was lowered $20,000 from 6 months ago... it now was close!
Lucky for us it was almost in our backyard. The wife and I went and spent hours going over it a month ago, and after two more trips we made an offer for $12,000 off from the new lower price. Two days later it was accepted (it seems like a good deal for us). The survey came out very clean with no major issues or moisture (have 4 minor 5 minutes fixes and 1 thing we need to keep our eyes on).
I singed the paperwork last Thursday and took delivery. The boat is being stored inside a heated building for the winter. This works perfect for me to get to know the systems, pot and re-bed the deck hardware, oil the interior teak and add a few electrical toys... new high power alt, Bluesea v422 battery and tank monitor, Xantrex inverter and hopefully a Lewmar windlass.
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As the President begins the drawdown process in Afghanistan, some other things will have to change as well. There will be a shift from rapid impact stability programs run by international agencies to infrastructure and economic growth projects that can be run by Afghans. Hydroelectric dams, roads, gas fields, mines, and increased agricultural production will be the center of attention as the 2014 drawdown deadline approaches.


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"90% of the people who download PC games illegally are doing so to see what the game is like and if it's worth the $$, then they end up getting lazy and keeping it on the HD, etc."
You said this earlier. It makes it sound like most people doing this are just seeing if the game is worth the money. It sounds as if you feel this particular form of piracy is more acceptable than people who are stealing it and do not intend to pay for it. There is no difference. Stealing is stealing. I never flamed or yelled at you, calm down.
No, I was stating a fact, people DO download the games to see if the games are worth their money. I;ve read numerous posts on this, especially over @ guru3d. It does happen, so I was saying, if games had some sort of rental option, these people wouldn't have an excuse to download these games and get lazy. Guess I shoul've worded it differently. =)
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I normally try not to show a full article, but the latest from the Hotline on the 2008 Democratic National Convention has nothing that can be skipped: If anything, city leaders can thank the Republicans. Set side-by-side, New York's bid is stronger. But the political argument for Denver is far more compelling, thanks to its geographical location, the blue hue of growing parts of the state, its Latino population, and its Mountain West political culture. Party sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Denver's third revision of its bid sufficiently addressed a number of technical concerns that originally caused some on the site selection committee to dismiss it entirely. Some donors are pushing heavily for New York, which turned in superlative a bid and is heavily lobbying the DNC. But some of Howard Dean's closest advisers are warming to Denver. Many on the site selection committee had high hopes for Denver and found themsleves taken aback by Denver's first official submission. It had been written by the city's convention and visitors bureau, which seemed to have mistaken a national party for a very large, but very ordinary, sports event. One official said that the first Denver bid seemed to be an appended version the city's attempt to land an NBA All-Star game. But Denver's bid now highlights several strengths : the convention would be held in the Pepsi Center , which is surrounded by acres of open parking lots. That's perfect for the media, which sets up tent cities and builds newsrooms, and for security planners, who have plenty of space to set up barriers and control the flow of people and traffic. The Pepsi Center is attached to Denver's convention center, In the months since it first turned in its bid, Denver tightened some its hinges and hired Debbie Wilhite, a veteran convention organizer, to reorganize its effort. Meanwhile, the site selection committee turned its gaze to the Twin Cities. It had transporation problems but plenty of union hotels. By metrics alone, New York City's bid towered above other cities, and some on the committee argued internally that the security needs in a post-9/11 era couldn't really be met by any other muncipality. Today: the GOP threw a wrench into the Democrats' calculations. The RNC site selection committee wasn't supposed to choose its city until -- at the earliest -- December. But Republicans said the strength of the Twin Cities' courtship, combined with a desire to prevent the Democrats from choosing a blue-trending battleground state, necessitated the surgical action. Cleveland, another finalist, simply couldn't provide the RNC with assurance that it had enough hotel rooms. Tampa had hurricanes. And a well-timed convention announcement might help Gov. Tim Pawlenty survive a tough re-election challenge this cycle. Some Democrats speculate that the RNC wanted to avenge an embarassment; last year, the DNC surprised the Republicans by choosing their 2008 convention dates much earlier than anticipated. Another plus for Denver: Republicans could choose New York in 2004 because of its 9/11 symbolism; the Democrats wouldn't be able to choose New York without explaining why they passed over two culturally distinct states in the interior of the country. The city of Denver, which as recently as early September stood a small chance of securing the Democratic National Convention in '08, is a contender once again.
Ouch!And aside its patchwork quality, there was a major, seemingly intractible problem: the city had no union hotels and labor had little chance of organizing one before the convention. Denver's locals are on board, but many national labor leaders, already feeling underappreciated by the party, are withholding their approval.
well, no it isn't...and the city's light rail line directly skirts major delegate and campaign hotels.
And just like that, and then there were two, and either city could win this thing.
Update: The New York Times adds this:With Minneapolis out of contention, Democrats are now weighing whether Denver — an appealing Western spot in an increasingly volatile state — has enough union-run hotels to play host to their convention, which is sometimes larger than that of the Republicans. New York City has cleared the logistical bar for having the convention, officials said, but as a widely Democratic state, New York holds less political appeal than Colorado. And a potential Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton represents New York.
Back in the spring I wrote that there have been 4 "home state" conventions in recent years in the last 60 years:Stevenson: '52, '56 - Chicago
I don't know Stevenson's status in his 2 years, but Houston in '92 was clearly done for Bush's home state. Boston in '04 is certainly arguable - while Kerry was in the first tier of candidates in 2002, his nomination was certainly not guranteed. And anyway, I wonder if Bill isn't telling Hillary, you'll do better giving your speech in Denver. If she gets the nomination, it would not suprise me if one of her focuses is on her mid-western (Illinois, Arkansas) roots. If her people push for Denver, that would have a lot of sway.
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4th grade students examined Picasso's paintings of the Mediterranean Sea. Pablo Picasso lived in the south of France and painted many different views of the beautiful sea. Students drew with pencils to sketch out their ideas, then painted with blue tempera paint and created various tints of blue as well. The students loved mixing their colors on the paper! After the students paintings were complete, they used oil pastels to outline shapes and add designs.
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Approaching the Non-Linear Shannon Limit
Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 423-433 (2010)
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We review the recent progress of information theory in optical communications, and describe the current experimental results and associated advances in various individual technologies which increase the information capacity. We confirm the widely held belief that the reported capacities are approaching the fundamental limits imposed by signal-to-noise ratio and the distributed non-linearity of conventional optical fibres, resulting in the reduction in the growth rate of communication capacity. We also discuss the techniques which are promising to increase and/or approach the information capacity limit.
Andrew D. Ellis, Jian Zhao, and David Cotter, "Approaching the Non-Linear Shannon Limit," J. Lightwave Technol. 28, 423-433 (2010)
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Rendition: Review
Back during my schooldays, we had a teacher (a monk of the Christian Brothers of Edmund Rice, not the most liberal organisation in history) called Brother Beddoe. This person would only occasionally teach our class, but was chiefly memorable for the fact that he would spend a good half of it inveighing against the (then) Soviet Union. Apparently, the people of the USSR had "no rights at all" and, among other things without number, were tortured routinely in secret prisons to extract confessions from them.
I rather wonder what Brother Beddoe is doing today. I hope he's alive and well, and that he keeps up with current affairs. I also hope he's grown a sense of irony since I last saw him over twenty-five years ago.
If he's still around, I'd strongly recommend Brother Beddoe do a few things. Like, watch a certain movie.
Y'know, I don't like Hollywood much. I could say that it's at least, overall, better than Bollywood, but that would be condemning with faint praise indeed. I much prefer European or Iranian cinema. But there are times, rare and precious, when Hollywood doesn't drop the ball.
You've heard the word rendition, I suppose? The full form of the term is extraordinary rendition, and referred to the practice, started by that great liberal Kill Blinton (who destroyed more than one country in order to save its people), of outsourcing torture. Suspected "terrorists" were sent via planes (which landed and refuelled in other great and liberal European nations) to Arab countries where they were tortured professionally to squeeze out confessions. Whether those confessions were useful or even real didn't matter – the programme needed confessions, and, of course, got them. And the practice soon stopped being "extraordinary" and became quite routine during Bush's Global War Of Terror.
This is one such story.
Anwar el-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian chemical engineer, who lives in Chicago with his heavily pregnant wife, Isabella, his son and mother. He's lived in the US since the age of fourteen, has a green card, and travels abroad once in a while on conferences.
Meanwhile, somewhere in an unnamed generic North African country, a suicide bomber blows himself up in a public square. Among the nineteen people killed is a newly arrived CIA agent, a US citizen. The bombing is claimed by a local Islamic fundamentalist terrorist group, El Hazam, and another CIA agent (Jake Gyllenhaal as "Douglas Freeman") is ordered to lead the local investigation.
Anwar el-Ibrahimi has just landed after a trip to South Africa when he's arrested, at Chicago airport before arriving at customs, and hustled into a CIA secret prison, while all records of his having flown at all are quietly deleted from the passenger list. His crime? Someone who may be a terrorist has, apparently, called his cell-phone number on several occasions. Of course, it may not be his phone (as when the phone was in his possession; as a character says, "these people" sell or give away their SIM cards, and one SIM card can often pass through the possession of many people in succession), and he denies knowing the man, but the CIA wants a confession. Someone must confess something, even if the act of extorting a confession by torture creates a hundred or a thousand enemies where there were none.
At the express order of CIA official Corinne Whitman (a superb performance by Meryl Streep – I love this woman's portrayal of utterly vile people) el-Ibrahimi is shipped off to the same unnamed North African nation, where he's stuffed into a tiny cell, stripped naked, waterboarded, and subjected to electric shocks to get him to tell all he knows about the terrorists he's never heard of. Freeman is a mute spectator at these torture sessions, which are supervised by local secret police chief Abasi Fawal, who had been the target of the suicide bombing in the public square.
Fawal, meanwhile, isn't a typical movie-monster. He's a family man with a wife and two daughters, the elder of whom, Fatima, elopes with a young fellow-student called Khalid. Khalid is not someone whom the police chief is likely to approve of as a prospective son-in-law; still less, if he knew that the young man is a secret member of a radical Islamic fundamentalist group, and also someone whose brother Fawal himself had tortured to death in the prison.
On the other side of the planet, Anwar's wife Isabella frantically tries to discover his whereabouts, finally asking for help from an old friend, senatorial aide Alan Smith. Although Anwar was erased from the passenger list at Chicago, proof exists that he had boarded the flight at Cape Town in South Africa, and his credit card statement proves that he had purchased items from the onboard duty-free shop. Smith approaches his senator, an alleged liberal, but is warned off both by the senator himself and Corinne Whitman, since defending an alleged "terrorist" is career suicide.
There are these separate stories moving side-by-side through the narrative, then: Anwar and his torturers; Fawal's daughter Fatima and her boyfriend; and Isabella, frantically seeking information about her husband. The common element in them is one, the figure of Anwar, even though he isn't even aware of the existence of most of the other protagonists.
In the way it juggles different narratives, this film can be compared to Babel. However, I'd call it infinitely superior to that film, where the only "common" element – if one could call it that – between the parallel stories was a rifle, and those who've seen that movie will probably agree that the Japan scenes were thrown in as an excuse for some of the most bafflingly gratuitous nudity ever filmed. Rendition is superior to Babel by just about any parameter one can think of, including the fact that it, too, has a time sequence shift which becomes clear only at the end. In Babel, that shift only serves to confuse the issue further; in Rendition, it serves to tie up loose ends and makes for a twist that I won't reveal here.
There are various things that one takes away from Rendition, or should if one's watched the film with any attention:
There's the parallel between the thinking processes of the jihadist preacher who exhorts his congregation to give their lives for Islam, and not to fear the enemy's bullets because all they can do is "set (their) soul free", and the secret police chief who describes the act of torturing prisoners to extract confessions as his "sacred duty." There's the idiocy of torturing confessions which are completely false, because, as Shakespeare said five hundred years ago,
I fear you speak upon the rack
Where men enforced do speak anything.
There's the pervasive fear in Washington of going against the official stance on national security, where the Constitution can be dumped along with one's personal convictions just to avoid being called a "lover of Osama bin Laden." And there's the unnamed North African nation, where legitimate protestors are baton-whipped, arrested and tortured by police, so there's no way out but violence if one wants change. Stupidity, cowardice and expediency, mixed into the most lethal cocktail one can think of.
Rendition wears its liberal credentials on its sleeve and would have pissed off a lot of people of the right-wing persuasion, because of the uncomfortable questions it asks. That these questions are "uncomfortable" are themselves testimony of their validity; they can't be easily answered. Are 999 fake confessions, 999 tortured innocents, justified if by chance the 1000th just might be useful in preventing a terror attack which might, in the words of Corinne Whitman, have killed "7000 people" in London? And who is to say that it was useful, the people who have a vested interest in keeping the torture programme in existence? Who shall guard the guardians?
The best acting comes from Omar Metwally as Anwar el-Ibrahimi; not because of what he says or does, but how he depicts the character's steady physical and mental deterioration throughout the film, turning from a cool and composed professional in the first scenes to a drivelling wreck towards the end. As his wife, Isabella, Reese Witherspoon is competent and thankfully doesn't go the wrist-wringing route. Zineb Oukatch is good as Fatima Fawal, and as I said, Meryl Streep is superb in the few scenes she has. The cinematography is good and the North African settings look authentic.
I'm giving this film four and a half stars out of a possible five. I'm deducting half a star entirely because of the denouement of one of the narrative plots in the last fifteen minutes, which depends on a CIA agent suddenly developing a conscience and deciding to do the "right" thing even at the cost of his career – an intensely unlikely happening however you look at it. It's as though the filmmakers suddenly realised that after one hour and forty five minutes of treating all Americans except Isabella el-Ibrahimi as villains, they needed to show that at least one of the others was someone with a conscience and the spine to do as it dictated.
In the final analysis, though, that's quibbling. The film's excellent.
Like Roger Ebert, who gave it four stars out of four, I strongly recommend it.
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Interesting, maybe, but not too useful. I am not fond of political wrangling of any kind, and that is exactly what he's doing: he's using Christmas as a way to beat up on Bush. I have little patience for any beating up of political figures, regardless of how I personally feel about them. And what is really, incredibly ironic is that he is mixing up what I see as two opposing forces. He's implying that religion should dictate politics - for all practical purposes, a church state. It's a concept most Americans don't like, but there's been a church state in Britain for hundreds of years, so I guess it's a different perspective. He also claims that there's no politics in Christianity, even though Christ had strong political messages. I have to disagree with his claim of no politics in Christianity. Earlier this year, I made a concious decision to leave a faith I've loved for many years (I won't say which one) because some of the church officials were publicly declaring that members were obligated to vote a certain way, and if they didn't, they should be denied certain sacraments. The implication was, "Vote for Joe, or you can't be part of this community." I don't know how you can get more political than that. It is my feeling that this is entirely inappropriate for a Christian church, and I will have no part of it. It may be that what I have observed is just an American phenomenon - the author of the article is British, so maybe it's a different ball game there. RS


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Your party slew that hideous desiccated corpse that attacked you. Striking the killing blow, and after the blasted thaumaturge found there was only a 'mild magical emanation' from the ring said you could have it.
It is beautiful, but so dark and cold. You just can't seem to get the ring warmed up. Also, you don't seem to recall eating or drinking since acquiring the ring. No matter, surely it will fetch a pretty penny.
Onyx ring set with black opal will sell for 1300 gp to a jeweler. Slightly less on an open market.


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Take a break from the turkey and presents by having a go at our special Fulham Football Club Christmas-themed quiz.
Fulham FC is delighted to announce the two-month loan signing of Clint Dempsey from MLS side Seattle Sounders.
Here's a Flashback to our last win at Carrow Road, where a slick team goal ensured we took home all three points.
Remind yourself of some previous trips to East Anglia with pictures of the Whites in action against the Canaries.
René Meulensteen believes the positives are apparent but better defending will begin to win Fulham points.
Watch all the incidents from an action-packed match as the Whites fought back but Man City ran away winners.
Vic and Ivan present the best bits of Fulham's annual Christmas at the Cottage event.
Adel Taarabt believes the points will come following some impressive performances of late.
Test your knowledge of Fulham Football Club by taking our 10 question Cottage Quiz every weekend.
Behind-the-scenes from before, during and after the Man City game with Vic and Ivan.


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Friday, April 1, 2011
New Stack Video!
Ohhh, don't you just LOVE new stacks?!
I know you do! And I love to tease you too ;) I have a {video} to share with you today showing you FIVE new stacks that will be available in the next few weeks at Jo-Anns Stores and on their online store! I love how different and unique all of these are! My favorites are Lemon Flower & Tattered Time :)
What are your favorites? Leave me a comment here on this blog post telling me which one is your favorite and be entered to win your choice of 2 of these new stacks! You can have an additional comment telling me you are a blog follower and a Facebook fan. And if you post a link to this blogpost on your own blog or Facebook fan, leave yourself another comment! So no more than FOUR comments per follower!!
Enjoy the video and your weekend! Back on Monday with a winner!!
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